The Great Magician

2011 · 128 MIN · IMDB 5.9 · 2,057 VOTES · DIR. Derek Yee Tung-Sing

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Overview

In the years after the Revolution, China broken up into fiefdoms held by warlords, who are busy fighting each other. One warlord has imprisoned a girl and wants her to be his seventh wife, but he's too honorable to force her. The local revolutionaries wants to kill him and bring back the republic. But when a stranger returns from abroad with mastery of magic to recover the girl he loved, who is tricking whom and who will win at the end?

Dialogue Timeline — 1,859 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:01:53 Welcome my fellows.
00:06:17 Honey.
00:11:15 Enough!
00:15:53 They're hurting me
00:20:15 Who are you?
00:24:26 to important matters.
00:28:01 The public sees us as a bunch of amateurs.
00:34:53 Te-chun.
00:39:17 My brother will never betray you!
00:47:02 - Such a rarity! - Yeah.
00:54:51 Master Chang, shoot at us too!
01:01:00 My friend has disappeared.
01:05:51 He said, a magician is observant.
01:10:50 If I were emperor
01:14:43 That's why...
01:18:24 I'm fine...
01:21:36 My mother can swim.
01:25:09 you've come at last.
01:30:12 It was right under our noses!
01:36:28 Yes...
01:40:11 But you can't blame me
01:45:51 heartbreaking and worthy of sympathy.
01:51:43 Go with him!
02:00:27 Liu!

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,859
Dialogue density14.5 lines / min
First line00:01:53
Final line02:00:27

Production Record

DirectorDerek Yee Tung-Sing
LanguageChinese
Budget$15,000,000
IMDb votes2,057